ok now i have to really sit down and look backwards and
reconsider if i should take america seriously at all. why? i'll
tell you why. last night, with no distractions at all in my hotel
room, i fell asleep in the middle of a film which was supposed to
be all that.
the film: primary colors. what a bore.
first of all, the storyteller is such a schlep. the film is saved
by kathy bates, no question. travolta's governor has about as
much enthusiasm as a worm in heat - although we know that's
exactly the character he is supposed to portray. but all of the
characters seem so pathetically stupid, you wonder if this is a
presidential campaign at all. if primary colors, the movie, can
be taken with any seriousness, then it is no wonder at all why
american politics are so cynical.
since i can't stomach that possibility and will be searching
reviews for independent confirmation of that, then i'll have to
trash the movie, well the overlong part that i saw while i was
awake. i vaguely recall something about a scandal in miami (i
thought whistlestops were about delivering messages, not dodging
scandals) before i drifed off to a well-provoked slumber.
i'll give it a 70% - and that is inferior to 'wag the dog'.
